As the year winds down, I took the liberty to look at the terms that would shape the CIO discussions in 2014. Here are 10 terms that definitely will be part of their conversations. Some have already had a major impact in 2013 while others are new. They are all at the center of the digital economy. There are definitely others. Tell me which ones you would add to the list. And may I take a minute to wish you a wonderful 2014 where all your wishes are fulfilled.

You remember the good old days of data processing? The term data was already used to speak about IT, information technology. But CIOs seem to have forgotten a little about it, or at least they do not look at all the data required by the organization. Is that the reason of the difficulty with the CMO. Let's take a moment to look at the different types of information the CIO should include under his realm. Yes it's all about big data, but there is data and data in the digital enterprise.

As HP Discover in Barcelona closes, let's look back at what happened there. I ran through my scribbled notes and came up with a couple thoughts I captured and things I learned. Beyond big data, cloud and mobility are still at the center of many people's interests. And hybrid is popping up all over the place, the integration of mobile and cloud, the use of private and public clouds, the integration of SaaS etc. But applications and services take an increasingly central role,and the business value of the new style of IT should not be forgotten.

When you decide to move to cloud, it's to run something in the cloud. This automatically leads to your applications. So, how do you transform your applications to run in a cloud environment. Today I discussed this with customers and with some of my collegues. Interested in knowing how we do this?

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Christian is responsible for building services focused on advising clients in their move to cloud, particularly from a business process and application perspective, and establishing a global community to deliver those services to our customers worldwide.